Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Cestoda > Subclass Nephroposticophora > Subclass Eucestoda > Order Diphyllidea > Family Echinobothriidae > Genus Ditrachybothridium

Ditrachybothridium macrocephalum Rees, 1959

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ditrachybothridium*	Rees, 1959	accepted genus name

Literature

basis of record	Bray, R.A. (2001). Cestoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 146-149
additional source	Caira, J. N.; Ivanov, V. A., Jensen, K., Marques, F. P. L. (2017). Diphyllidea van Beneden in Carus, 1863. In: Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (2008-2017): Tapeworms from Vertebrate Bowels of the Earth. J. N. Caira & K. Jensen (eds). University of Kansas, Natural History Museum, Special Publication No. 25, KS, USA, pp. 149-166.
redescription	Bray, R.A. and Olsen, P.D. (2004). The plerocerus of Ditrachybothridium macrocephalum Rees, 1959 from two deep-sea elasmobranchs, with a molecular analysis of its position within the order Diphyllidea and a checklist of the hosts of larval diphyllideans. Systematic Parasitology. 59(3): 159-167.